One-Day Birding Tour from Ho Chi Minh City
Short on time? Wildtour can arrange a full-day or morning birding trip from Ho Chi Minh City, selecting the most productive nearby habitat according to season, tide, weather and your target species.
Vietnam’s expert-led birding and wildlife tours are designed by Vietnamese ornithologists and field naturalists. Since 2005, Wildtour has created specialist birding, wildlife, photography and conservation-focused journeys across Vietnam and Indochina.
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Wildtour is designed for travellers who care about birds, habitats and meaningful field experiences. Our work combines tourism, biodiversity research and conservation action.
Guided by Vietnamese birders and naturalists with deep field experience.
Routes designed around target species, seasons, habitats and travel flow.
Trips connect visitors with real conservation stories and local landscapes.
Experienced planning across forests, wetlands, coasts and remote areas.
Start with a classic Vietnam birding route, add a short extension, or request a private custom itinerary based on your target species.
Short on time? Wildtour can arrange a full-day or morning birding trip from Ho Chi Minh City, selecting the most productive nearby habitat according to season, tide, weather and your target species.
This 15-day tour explores Southern Vietnam and Cambodia, blending rich wildlife with cultural highlights. Discover Cat Tien, Tram Chim, and Siem Reap’s wetlands alongside iconic landmarks like Angkor Wat and Cu Chi.
Designed for bird photographers, this custom Cat Tien tour utilizes specialized hides to capture clear shots of Bar-bellied and Blue-rumped Pittas, Germain’s Peacock-Pheasant, Siamese Fireback, and other striking forest species.
If you don't want a package tour but need transportation to travel to birding sites and get around, you can hire a car from us. Our drivers know most birding places and are enthusiastic to take you there.
Target elusive pittas across Tam Dao and Cuc Phuong national parks. Utilizing specialized feeding stations, this photography-focused tour offers unprecedented views of Blue-naped, Bar-bellied, and Blue-rumped Pittas alongside other rare forest specialties
This tour is designed for those who has been birded in Vietnam and Southeast Asia once or several times but missed some key/endemic species or has not visited the sites for such targets.
Vietnam offers a rare combination of lowland forests, montane plateaus, coastal mudflats, wetlands, limestone karst and northern mountains.
Orange-necked Partridge, Bar-bellied and Blue-rumped Pitta, Black-and-buff, Pale-headed Woodpecker
Phong Nha-Ke Bang combines spectacular limestone karst with extensive forest and is one of north-central Vietnam's most distinctive birding landscapes. The park lies within the Annamese Lowlands Endemic Bird Area and supports more than 200 recorded birds
Yok Don is the second largest national park in Vietnam, it holds a forest dominated by Dipterocarpaceae which is open in dry searon or called deciduous forest, the ecosystem that is almost as productive as the African savanna.
Mang Den lies on the Kon Tum Plateau at around 1,200 m and combines a cool highland town with access to montane evergreen forest, especially around Mang Canh. The area has become one of central Vietnam's most important specialist birding destinations.
Tam Dao National Park is a convenient montane birding site close to Hanoi, with lowland evergreen forest on the lower slopes and cooler montane forest at higher elevations. Its accessibility makes it a useful first or final stop on a northern Vietnam bird
Sa Pa and the Fansipan massif provide Vietnam's strongest taste of Sino-Himalayan birdlife. Around 350 species have been recorded in the wider area, including several montane birds that are scarce or absent elsewhere in the country.
Tell us your travel dates, target birds, group size and preferred pace. Wildtour will help design a realistic and rewarding itinerary.